Autoicous or sometimes rhizautoicous. Plants bright or yellow-green. Stems branching by innovation, c. 2–6 mm long. Leaves erect-spreading, sheathing at base, contorted when dry, gradually tapered or abruptly shouldered from a ±oblong base to an elongate subula, mostly (3–) 4.5–7 mm long toward stem apex, much shorter toward stem base, subula 1/2–2/3 total leaf length; apex subulate; costa mostly completely filling subula except for near subula base where narrowly laminate; margin with blunt teeth at apex, otherwise entire, unistratose in leaf base and base of subula, bistratose in upper subula; laminal cells at subula base rectangular smooth; laminal cells in leaf base mostly 60–105 μm long, 15–21 μm wide. Seta c. (5–) 13–15 (–39) mm long, yellow. Capsules cylindric with a long tapered neck that is equal or 1.5 times length of urn, (2.5–) 3–6 (–7) mm long, curved. Peristome erect, split into unequal branches nearly to basal membrane and usually fused apically, red-brown. Operculum rostrate from conic base, c. 1/3 capsule length.
EGU, VAlp. Recorded from Mounts Buffalo and Baw Baw on bare wet banks of watercourses and the Ada River in East Gippsland. Also QLD, NSW and Lord Howe Island. New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands.
